Is there anything of conceivable interest to the human mind, however
recherche, that cannot instantly be studied on the internet? Until now the
question struck me as wholly rhetorical, but no longer.

Type “Luxembourg boxer” into Google, and the first sites to appear refer to a breed of dog.

Admittedly, the sloppy typist who drops an “o” will enjoy a false dawn, either with mention of Gershon Luxemburg, an Israeli who runs a Jerusalem gym; or, for fans of creative Marxist underwear, the offer of Rosa Luxemburg boxer shorts, bearing her image on the right thigh, for £12 the pair.

But anyone desperate to educate themselves about pugilism in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, the landlocked EU state, faces a struggle.

Although not technically its promoter, Mr Warren has persuaded the Luxembourg Boxing Federation to sanction his heavyweight grudge match between Dave Haye and Dereck Chisora, as scheduled for Upton Park on July 14.

This development has caused many people to get their Rosa Luxemburgs in a frightful twist.

Full disclosure demands the admission that relations between Mr Warren and your columnist have not been unremittingly cosy down the years, legal letters having sporadically been exchanged.

But in this case, I congratulate him warmly and without irony on a stroke of genius in circumventing the British Boxing Board of Control’s refusal to allow the fight.

The BBBC withdrew Chisora’s licence over his exchange of blows with the then retired Haye in February, after the former’s spirited points defeat by Vitali Klitchko in Munich.

Although that was its privilege, the philosophy behind banning a fighter for fighting, even if without gloves, seems muddle-headed.

So does the notion that this hissy fit dealt such a blow to the reputation of a sport historically populated by mobsters, drug addicts, rapists, killers and assorted villains that it may not be reprised in a ring.

But then the moral high ground never suits boxing. The altitude sickness scrambles its brains, and the thin air makes breathing so hard that breathtaking hypocrisy ensues.

Truth be told, neither man is easy to like. Haye’s pre-bout jive talk has been trenchant even by ticket-shifting standards, while Chisora may add spitting to a charge sheet of inelegancies that would see him expelled from the more disciplinarian of finishing schools.

There was little national mourning when the former announced his retirement after his feckless defeat by the other Klitchko, Wladimir; or when Mr Chisora was forcibly retired over the brawl that followed his points defeat by Vitali.

Yet affability and mannerliness are hardly crucial essential traits in fighters, while their mutual loathing has lent the careers of these two some purpose.

Without anticipating their begloved rematch as another Thrilla in Manilla, this is the only British heavyweight bout capable of selling out a large arena, and of tempting the sane to hand £15.99 to a pay-per-view channel.

And of all the sport’s myriad sanctioning bodies, the only one worth diddly is MONEY.

Actually, this is unfair. In this context, the Luxembourg Boxing Federation has value for helping Mr Warren to remind us that boxing is not an offshoot of the General Synod of the Church of England.

It is a brutal, axiomatically amoral and ineffably money-fixated sport which exists to cash in on public taste for the guilty pleasure.

The logical extension of its stance should be apparent even to the BBBC.

If it persists with its threat to ban everyone involved in this fight in any way, it will be making an unanswerable case for its own extinction.

These are among the last words I ever expected to write, but hats off Frank Warren! Call the BBBC’s bluff, and see if it sticks to the guns it is pointing at its own temples.

In the unlikely event that it does not capitulate, the fight could surely be transferred to a European nation easily accessible to ticket holders by train or plane, and with a long and resplendent boxing history of its own.

I have a feeling that one of Frank’s new friends at the Luxembourg Boxing Federation will have a good idea of the perfect location.